Natural Sequence Farming

Shirley - just re-read your last & yes, the legislation side of all this is infuriating in the extreme. My experience has always been that govt. departments tend to be schizophrenic - the community focused "extension" officers (& I used to be one) work hard to cut through the "red tape" & get good s...

Hi Shirley, Quick answer to your specific questions: 1. No, I didn't think replacing with a berry producing plant was necessary because there are far more such plants (exotics) in the landscape than ever before. 2. The functioning floodplain - well absolutely! One of the biggest problems with channe...

Hi Shirley, Mt Annan eh? What a fantastic place to live. Yep - there seems to be endless argument about what is the "correct" action to take with respect to developing & implementing riparian rehabilitation projects. There are many reasons for this - one of which is the way that most of the "profess...

Very interesting to see where this discussion is going. "Many ecologists seem to be totally unaware of this natural process of succession" - Duane, are you really sure about that statement?!!! Willows - yep, many of the CMAs etc do have rather simplistic programs that involve the wholesale removal o...

Ok there is way too much going on here to cover it all properly, but here's some "rules of thumb": Choosing vegetation for erosion control is a major issue. The idea of "tractive stess" needs to be considered. This is a simple concept - some types of vegetation/species have evolved to cope with the ...

Hello Duane, Working as a landcare co-ordinator on the mid-north coast of NSW from 1995 onwards I was involved with numerous projects dealing with the issue of river bed & bank erosion. I then went on to work for the old DLWC's Rivercare program. Channel bed lowering, & its impact on floodplain hydr...

I've loved all the publicity re. gully/stream/river rehabilitation - but the simple truth is it's all been done before! Leaky weirs are just slightly dodgy bed control structures, the role of which has been well understood for many a long year. Funny how we just seem to need to endlessly re-invent t...